Schedules and Unit Types
This is the most common unit type used in child care cases. With this unit type, a child requires care more than 4 hours per day between 15-23 days per month with no additional special criteria.
What is weekly 05?
This is the amount of earned income a client needs to make to meet the employment need factor.
Federal minimum wage
This is the OAC title number for child care in policy.
340
This is who you need to code the child care benefit under when coding in the Auth. Daycare tab in FACS.
The child in need of care
This is required for all initial applications for child care.
Interview
This schedule type is used when a child does not require more than 4 hours of care per day.
What is part-time?
This is the main requirement for residency when a client applies for child care assistance.
The client must reside (live) in the State of Oklahoma.
According to OAC 340:40-7-3 (Age requirements), children who are not disabled are no longer eligible for child care when they turn this age.
13 years old
This is the title of the child care benefit on the household tab in FACS. This is the option you will select for household members in the drop down menu to the far left.
Social Services to Adults and Families
This is the amount of months of child care provided for a parent/caretaker engaging in job search activities
3
This type of schedule is used if a child needs more than 4 hours of care a day and needs care either 1-14 days or 24 or more days in a month.
Full-time
Besides natural and/or adoptive parents and step-parents, these family members must be included in the child care household.
Siblings related by blood or marriage under the age of 18.
This is how often a child care family must have their benefits renewed in accordance with OAC 340:40-9-1 Review of Child Care Eligibility.
Every 12 months after the most recent approval or the last renewal.
This is how you check a certain tab, specifically the Auth. Daycare tab, for edits before saving the case in FACS.
Actions>Case Check>Check Tab
This is the resource that can be used to determine or look up the child care copay amounts based on income and household size.
Appendix C-4
This type of schedule is used when child care is needed more than 4 hours in a day occasionally and the child is not old enough to attend school.
Combination
All employed individuals must be employed this many hours on average in a week (or this many hours in a month).
20 hours per week or 80 hours per month.
OAC 340:40-5-1 explains that this helps families move toward self-sufficiency by addressing key factors in the household. It verifies why care is needed (such as working or attending school), sets appropriate child care hours (including travel time), explores alternative care options, and ensures there’s a backup plan for unexpected situations.
Child care plan
These are the two tabs that information is entered into FACS for child care cases in the eligibility notebook (moneybags).
Auth. Daycare and Child Care
This is how child care renewals are submitted by a client.
OKDHSLive
This schedule is typically used for children who require less than 4 hours of care on school days and more than 4 hours of care on holidays with no other special circumstances.
Blended Traditional
When a client is attending a formal education program, they must be enrolled in at least this many credit hours to meet the need factor for child care.
6
OAC 340:40-3-1(b) states that we will apply this specific policy in extreme circumstances when a client is in danger of losing their job, can’t begin a new job, are self-employed, and are not guaranteed to have income, or if a child needs protective or preventive care.
Presumptive eligibility
This is the command entered in the freeform save mode in FACS to back off of a financial assistance authorization.
B.999=@
These are the three types of child care providers.
Child care center
Child care home
In-home provider